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Bolognese Pizza

Cook up a bolognese sauce(or use your leftovers), add it to your pizza, and top with delicious melty cheese. This bolognese pizza is seasoned with ground meat, dried herbs, white wine, and tomatoes.The bolognese is great on it's own but even better using it as leftovers for this delicious pizza.
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Ingredients
  

Bolognese Sauce

  • 2 tbsp Salted Butter
  • 1 Large Carrot diced
  • 1 Celery Stalk diced
  • 1 Onion (Small) diced
  • 4 cloves Garlic minced
  • 16 oz Sweet Italian Sausage (raw) if you cannot find it pre ground then you can buy regular sausage, remove it from the casing, and then ground it.
  • 16 oz Ground Beef 85/15 or 90/10
  • 1/2 cup White Wine 1/2 cup White Wine Red is ok, but white wine is what is traditionally used to make Bolognese sauce
  • 3 tbsp Tomato Paste
  • 10 oz Tomato Puree Passata
  • 1 cup Beef Broth
  • 1/2 cup Whole Milk
  • 3/4 tsp Sea Salt
  • 1/4 tsp Black Pepper
  • 1 Bay Leaf
  • 1 pinch Nutmeg

Pizza Dough

  • 1 ball Pizza Dough I buy my premade dough at Trader Joes
  • 1-2 Cups Bolognese Sauce This depends on how saucy you want your pizza. You don't want to put on too much sauce because then it will be hard to pick up a slice of pizza once it is cooked.
  • 2 cups Shredded Cheese I used about 1.5 cups of shredded mozzarella and 1/2 cup of a sharper pizza cheese to create a nice balance of flavors.
  • Toppings Optional

Instructions
 

Bolognese Sauce

  • Heat the butter on medium heat and add the onion, carrot, and celery. Cook for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally so that it does not burn.
  • Add the garlic, italian sausage, salt, pepper, and beef. Cook until the meat is mostly cooked.
  • Add the wine and stir. Allow the alcohol to cook out of the wine for about 3-5 minutes. Then, add your tomato paste and stir it in so that it is fully incorporated
  • Add your tomato puree, beef broth, bay leaf, pinch of nutmeg and milk. Mix well and allow to simmer on low heat for 2-3 hours.

Pizza

  • Bring store bought to room temperature for 30 minutes by removing it from the refrigerator and leaving it on the counter.
  • Preheat oven using the instructions on your store bought pizza dough or pizza dough recipe.
  • Roll out pizza dough on a smooth surface using a rolling pin. I like to press down on the pizza dough with my hand first to make it flatter. Then I use my rolling pin to roll it out, being careful to change sides so that I can create a circle.
  • Add your sauce and topping. Bake for 15 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly!